Attention

What is the primary function of the attenuator in Treisman's Attenuation Model?

In Broadbent's Early Selection Model, what is the role of the filter?

What does the 'cocktail party effect' illustrate about selective attention?

What is the first stage of analysis in Treisman's Attenuation Model?

In the context of cognitive load, what typically happens during divided attention tasks?

Which factor plays a significant role in selecting messages during pre-attentive analysis?

What is meant by 'flanker compatibility task'?

In Treisman's model, what threshold do common words have in the dictionary unit?

What is the primary outcome of Cherry’s Dichotic Listening experiment?

Which of the following describes the concept of input attention?

What does the early selection effect primarily influence during perceptual processing?

In the context of late selection, what happens to distractors that are processed?

According to Lavie's research, what condition leads to greater distractor effects?

What is a key feature of the Flanker compatibility task?

What is the main characteristic of cognitive resources as described in the content?

What happens during automatic processing after enough practice?

In the late selection model, what is the primary processing level before selection?

Which type of attentional control allows for automatic task completion under practice?

How can change blindness be best described?

What role does stimulus salience play in eye movements?

Which is often the primary method through which exogenous attention is captured?

What does the term 'enduring dispositions' refer to in attention theories?

In a varied mapping condition during memory search tasks, participants struggle mainly because:

What effect does cognitive load have on attentional control during multitasking?

What type of attention involves focusing on multiple stimuli simultaneously?

Selective attention only allows for the processing of attended messages without any interference from unattended messages.

What is the phenomenon where a person hears their name from an unattended conversation?

In Treisman's Attenuation Model, the unit that contains stored words is called the ______.

Match the types of attention with their definitions.

Which model suggests that filtering based on physical characteristics happens at the early stage?

In Moray's shadowing experiment, participants were able to recall specific details from the unattended messages.

What is the first stage of processing in Treisman's model where messages are identified?

Broadbent's model asserts that all unattended messages are ______ and not processed for consciousness.

Which of the following is a characteristic that affects people's ability to identify attended messages?

What does the early selection effect primarily prevent?

The Stroop effect demonstrates that reading words is generally easier than identifying ink colors.

Define cognitive load.

Under high perceptual load, capacity is fully engaged, preventing __________ stimuli from intruding.

Match the term with its definition:

Which of the following statements is true regarding automatic processing?

Distractor effects are greater in high perceptual load conditions.

What is the flanker compatibility effect?

High cognitive load leads to a __________ in the ability to allocate resources to multiple tasks.

Which of the following best describes the results of a memory search task under varied mapping conditions?

Inattentional blindness is when a person is aware of all stimuli in their surroundings.

What are enduring dispositions?

Saccadic eye movements refer to the quick movements of the eyes between __________.

What is the relationship between practice and performance in tasks like Tetris?

Match the following attention theories/phenomena with their descriptions:

What primarily determines whether a message is attended to in Broadbent's Early Selection Model?

In Treisman's model, attended messages are fully processed while unattended messages are completely blocked from any processing.

What concept explains the ability to ignore irrelevant stimuli while focusing on a primary task?

The memory search task shows that response time (RT) __________ as the memory-set size increases.

Match the following terms with their definitions:

What type of processing allows for focused attention in the presence of distractors?

In the compatible flanker condition, response times tend to be slower.

What is the function of the dictionary unit in Treisman’s model?

In stimulus selection, __________ characteristics like pitch and speed are analyzed first.

Which factor does NOT typically influence eye movements according to the content?

High cognitive load allows for more efficient multitasking.

What is the primary role of the filter in Broadbent's Early Selection Model?

The phenomenon where individuals fail to notice a change in their environment while focusing on something else is known as __________.

Which of the following describes the relationship between memory-set size and response time?